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WASHINGTON— David Petraeus, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a retired military general, has signed court papers indicating he will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information in exchange for a prosecutor’s recommendation he serve no jail time. Read More »

There’s at least one place where the battle to learn more about the CIA’s interrogation program continues: the military commission courtroom at Guantanamo Bay.

Attorneys for an accused 9/11 plotter who was held by the CIA, Amar al-Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, said Tuesday they would continue fighting for access to the full Senate Intelligence Committee report as part of their defense against capital charges. Read More »

A Senate committee is releasing a report Tuesday on the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program for foreign terrorism suspects. Here are questions and answers about the report. Read More »

Trial run: The trial of veteran hedge-fund portfolio manager Michael Steinberg is expected to be an important test of the theories underpinning the government’s pending civil case against Steven A. Cohen. [WSJ]

Financial spying: The Central Intelligence Agency’s effort to build a vast database of international money, sweeping in millions of Americans’ financial and personal data, is the latest example of blurred lines between foreign and domestic intelligence. [WSJ]

Currency trade probe: Traders from several major banks may have influenced currency benchmarks to benefit their employers. [NYT] Read More »

WASHINGTON—A former Central Intelligence Agency officer was sentenced Friday to 2½ years in prison for disclosing information to a reporter identifying a covert agent.

A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., sentenced John Kiriakou, 48 years old, to 30 months in prison as part of an agreement with prosecutors. U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected claims that Mr. Kiriakou was a whistleblower, as his supporters have portrayed him. . . . . Read More »

Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Justice Department has closed an investigation into the deaths of two detainees who allegedly were interrogated by the CIA. No charges will be brought, Mr. Holder said.

Mr. Holder said that department “declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt” but that the inquiry “was not intended to, and does not resolve, broader questions regarding the propriety of the examined conduct.”

The names of the detainees weren’t released. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that prosecutors had been using a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., to investigate the death of Gul Rahman at a CIA prison called the Salt Pit in Afghanistan in 2002 and the death of Manadel al Jamadi at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003.

Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision to close the probe without charges was “nothing short of a scandal.”

“The Justice Department has declined to bring charges against the officials who authorized torture, the lawyers who sought to legitimate it, and the interrogators who used it. It has successfully shut down every legal suit meant to hold officials civilly liable,” Mr. Jaffer said in an emailed statement.

The WSJ’s Evan Perez has more here. Mr. Holder’s full statement on the investigation after the jump. . . Read More »

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